[lg policy] Conference: Reversing Language Shift: How to Reawaken a Language (UK, Sep 2010)
Damien Hall
djh514 at YORK.AC.UK
Fri Apr 23 16:54:09 UTC 2010
With apologies for cross-postings.
Damien
FEL XIV (the 14th Foundation for Endangered Languages conference), in
Carmarthen, Wales, UK, 13-15 September 2010:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-1931.html
Full Title: Reversing Language Shift: How to Reawaken a Language
Short Title: FEL XIV
Date: 13-Sep-2010 - 15-Sep-2010
Location: Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Hywel Lewis
Meeting Email: h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2010/index.htm
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language
Documentation; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2010
Meeting Description:
Language revitalisation requires the collaboration of a wide range of
expertise. Institutional, political, and local support all play crucial
roles, along with educationists and language planners. But how can these,
working together, have practical effects in the daily language usage of
ordinary people, and how can they achieve the goal of slowing down language
erosion and revitalising language tradition? Abstracts are invited on all
topics in language revitalisation and reversing language shift.
A language-relevant excursion is planned for the afternoon of 15 September
as well as cultural entertainment during the evenings of 13 and 14
September. Carmarthen's nearest airport is Cardiff, 110 Km away. If direct
flights to Cardiff are unavailable, try Bristol (175 Km from Carmarthen)
before any of the London airports.
The Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin - 'Castle Merlin') campus of University of
Wales: Trinity Saint David is situated on the edge of a market town with a
population of 13,500, most of them fluent Welsh-speakers. The town claims
to be the oldest in Wales, with a mediaeval castle and a Roman
amphitheatre. Carmarthen's name under Roman rule was Moridunum
Demetarum ('Sea Fort of Dyfed', in British).
Trinity University College, Carmarthen and Saint David's University
College, Lampeter, are merging, a process to be completed by September
2010. Trinity University College is famous in Wales for promotion of
bilingualism and bilingual teaching, recognised by the Welsh Assembly
Government as a key provider of Welsh-medium higher education.
Call for Papers
Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition
University of Wales: Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen, Wales
13-15 September, 2010
Language revitalisation is now receiving greater attention from academics,
language planners, politicians, institutions and organisations worldwide. A
step further than documentation, language revitalisation, supported by
active policy, offers the possibility of reversing a shift that threatens
over half of the world's languages.
Many take language vitality to be symbolic of national and cultural
identity. In the Celtic regions, in particular, governments are taking a
leading role in the struggle to reverse language shift by various efforts
including attempts to increase the number of speakers of the respective
languages.
Wales provides a good vantage point from which to consider prospects for
reversing language shift. It has experience in gauging levels of political
support at local, national and international levels. Census figures show an
increase in the number of users of Welsh, especially amongst the younger
generation, which can be attributed, like the language revival in Estonia,
to the education system. However, some academics doubt whether such
increases in speaker numbers lead to increased language fluency and use.
While efforts to achieve the Welsh Assembly's goal of a "bilingual Wales"
have led to demands for greater legislative powers and autonomy on
linguistic issues, the constant net immigration into the traditional
heartlands is steadily reducing the density of Welsh-speakers there.
Language revitalisation requires the collaboration of a wide range of
expertise. Institutional, political, and local support all play crucial
roles, along with educationists and language planners. But how can these,
working together, have practical effects in the daily language usage of
ordinary people, and how can they achieve the goal of slowing down language
erosion and revitalising language tradition?
Abstracts are invited on all topics in language revitalisation and
reversing language shift, such as the following: -The roles and influences
of formal educational systems -The roles of political independence,
campaigns for linguistic rights, and community attitudes -The role of
different domains of language use: is there a 'best practice' in ordering
their importance in language policy? -The roles of corpus planning,
documentary linguistics, and technologies, especially the internet -Can
there be a corpus standard without oppressive purism? If so, how else can a
corpus standard be propagated? -Language change in/through revitalisation
-Special problems in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural context -Whether
strategies for reversing language shift in places like Wales can be applied
where there are many minority languages -How to integrate monolingual
immigrants into bilingual society
Other relevant issues might include these questions: -Is political
independence crucial for ethnolinguistic vitality? -Are there useful links
between the problem of reversing language shift where there is only a
single minority language, and the problem where there is a host of small
languages? -What role is there for technology in reversing language shift?
-Are the benefits of bilingualism, cognitive and otherwise, still
contested? -Is there an inescapable trend towards larger language units,
and fewer languages? -If, as has been said, a shrinking language minority
always lacks the will to stop shrinking, must attempts to save such a
community focus on their will to save themselves?
Papers may focus on any endangered language situation in the world. The
language of papers is English or Welsh. The content of all papers will be
made accessible to those who lack Welsh.
Each presentation at the Conference will last twenty minutes, with a
further ten minutes for discussion and questions and answers. Keynote
lectures (by invitation only) will last forty-five minutes each.
Abstract submission:
An abstract of up to 500 words should be submitted before 30 April, 2010.
Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted.
The following information should also be provided on a separate page:
NAME(S): Names of the author(s)
TITLE: Title of the paper
INSTITUTION: Institutional affiliation, if any
E-MAIL: E-mail address of first author, if any
ADDRESS: Postal address of the first author
TEL: Telephone number of the first author, if any
FAX: Fax number of the first author, if any.
Submit abstracts either by email or post:
1. E-mail
Please send your abstract (with the other necessary details) via e-mail to
both of the following addresses:
h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk
nostlerchibcha.demon.co.uk
with the subject of the e-mail stating:
"FEL Abstract: (last name of the author(s)): (title of paper)"
2. Post
If you cannot submit by e-mail, please send your abstract and details on
paper to the following address (to arrive by 30 April 2010):
FEL XIV Conference Administration
Foundation for Endangered Languages
172 Bailbrook Lane
Bath BA1 7AA
United Kingdom
The name of the first author will be used in all correspondence. Writers
will be informed once their abstracts have been accepted and will be
required to submit their full papers for publication in the Proceedings by
August 1st, 2010, together with their registration fee (to be announced
soon).
Important Dates -Abstract arrival deadline: April 30, 2010 -Notification of
acceptance of paper: May 31, 2010 -In case of acceptance, the full paper
will be due by August 1st, 2010 It is a condition of speaking at the
conference that authors will submit a hard copy of their paper by this
deadline. (Further details on the format of text will be specified to the
authors.) -Conference dates: September 13-15, 2010
Conference Chair:
Dr Hywel Glyn Lewis
Ysgol y Gymraeg ac Astudiaethau Dwyieithrwydd
Prifysgol Cymru: Y Drindod Dewi Sant, Caerfyrddin, Cymru
or
School of Welsh and Bilingualism Studies
University of Wales: Trinity Saint David
Carmarthen SA31 3EP
Wales, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1267-676680
e-mail: h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk
The Foundation for Endangered Languages is a non-profit membership
organisation, registered as Charity 1070616 in England and Wales, founded
in 1996. Its objective is to support, enable and assist the documentation,
protection and promotion of endangered languages all over the world. The
Foundation awards small grants for projects. It also publishes a
newsletter, OGMIOS. It has hosted a conference every years since 1996, most
recently in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (2004), Stellenbosch, South Africa
(2005), Mysore, India (2006), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (2007),
Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2008) and Khorugh/Khorog, Tajikistan
(2009). The FEL conferences bring together experts, scholars and
enthusiasts from all over the world. The Proceedings of FEL conferences are
available as published volumes. For further information visit:
www.ogmios.org
--
Damien Hall
University of York
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Heslington
YORK
YO10 5DD
UK
Tel. (office) +44 (0)1904 432665
(mobile) +44 (0)771 853 5634
Fax +44 (0)1904 432673
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm
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